London's emergency services have attended a fire that broke out at a shop near Clerkenwell Road in Farringdon this morning (July 15).<br /><br />No injuries were reported by police on the scene where they said the building was “swept’’.<br /><br />An extended police cordon was set up spreading to Farringdon Road but a more secure perimeter was established closer to the blaze on Black Hill.<br /><br />Some passersby were refused entry to neighbouring buildings to avoid smoke inhalation despite office workers being locked inside office blocks close to the fire, for their own safety.<br /><br />Emergency services including police, fire brigade and ambulance service were in attendance.<br /><br />One police officer said: "It was initially a six-pump fire, but Grenfell was a four-pump fire.”<br /><br />London Fire Brigade has tweeted: “Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters have been called to a fire at a ground floor shop in #Clerkenwell.”<br /><br />Another police officer said that emergency services were on the scene at close to 6:15 this morning.<br /><br />A police helicopter has since been circling the skies above the incident.
